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This, I suppose, is what happens when a director allows his actors to put together a movie -- it's sort of like letting the inmates run the asylum. Oct 21, 2001 | Rating: 2/4 | Full Review…
This, I suppose, is what happens when a director allows his actors to put together a movie -- it's sort of like letting the inmates run the asylum.
James Berardinelli
A predictable exercise in fake tawdriness and half-nude psychodrama. Oct 20, 2001 | Rating: 2/5 | Full Review…
A predictable exercise in fake tawdriness and half-nude psychodrama.
Michael Atkinson
More than anything, Dancing at the Blue Iguana is an acting showcase that allows its stars to strut their emotional range. Oct 19, 2001 | Rating: 3.5/5
More than anything, Dancing at the Blue Iguana is an acting showcase that allows its stars to strut their emotional range.
Stephen Holden
Mostly this is a whole lot of chain-smoking and griping about men. You'd be better off renting Demi Moore's Striptease. Oct 19, 2001 | Rating: 2/4
Mostly this is a whole lot of chain-smoking and griping about men. You'd be better off renting Demi Moore's Striptease.
Lou Lumenick
Even if Dancing at the Blue Iguana can't rise to the level of the performances of Hannah, Oh and others, it is nonetheless engaging, not without humor and an aura of authenticity. Oct 19, 2001 | Rating: 3.5/5 | Full Review…
Even if Dancing at the Blue Iguana can't rise to the level of the performances of Hannah, Oh and others, it is nonetheless engaging, not without humor and an aura of authenticity.
Kevin Thomas
Always a more interesting acting exercise than compelling drama. Jan 4, 2002 | Rating: 2.5/4 | Full Review…
Always a more interesting acting exercise than compelling drama.
Michael Dequina
There's a lot of tepid exotic dancing as the girls' writhe and slither around the pole. Jan 2, 2002 | Rating: C- | Full Review…
There's a lot of tepid exotic dancing as the girls' writhe and slither around the pole.
Dennis Schwartz
After a full hour of Iguana I was watching the DVD counter tick by in slow motion. Dec 29, 2001 | Rating: 2.5/5
After a full hour of Iguana I was watching the DVD counter tick by in slow motion.
Christopher Null
Too often the uneven script is either hopelessly strained or tediously lackadaisical. Dec 9, 2001 | Full Review…
Too often the uneven script is either hopelessly strained or tediously lackadaisical.
Bruce Feld
The film's a mess, albeit a fascinating one. Oct 28, 2001 | Full Review…
The film's a mess, albeit a fascinating one.
Shlomo Schwartzberg
The result is a very believable strip club, inhabited by cardboard-thin protagonists who come across as caricatures more than actual people. Oct 19, 2001
The result is a very believable strip club, inhabited by cardboard-thin protagonists who come across as caricatures more than actual people.
Bilge Ebiri
A beautifully downbeat view of the dancers and their coworkers' as they spiral lower and lower. Oct 19, 2001 | Full Review…
A beautifully downbeat view of the dancers and their coworkers' as they spiral lower and lower.
E! Staff
It is mainly about five women who dance and make their living at a strip club called The Blue Iguana. The women seem to be looking for some kind of redemption of the sorts but I didn't find any or couldn't understand what was going on. Some of the women are shown as hysterical with no sense of self worth whatsoever and need to calm their nerves by indulging in alcohol and smoking ciggarettes. There is one girl who seems sort of straight played by Sandra Oh who loves going to poetry sessions and becomes attracted to a guy there. Daryl Hannah is the worst in this picture because her character is pretty depressing and lost. Im not really sure what made her take on a role like this but embarrassing nonetheless. Meg Tilly's performance is also a very sad let down. Michael Radford's film is a disappointment and maybe his picture would have worked if he just sat down and really worked on a polished screenplay instead of trying to do a Robert Altman improvasational ensemble piece. Maybe Paul Thomas Anderson could have made this a little more enjoyable. NOTE: Although I put down Darryl Hannah's perfomance her documentary "Strip Notes" is more gritty and fascinating then Radford's movie.
Super Reviewer
great boobs... dont watch for story
This film gives a very poignant, truthful, insightful, and artistic look into the world of exotic dancing. Great performances by a talented ensemble cast. Definitely worth a look or two.
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